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...Walter Scott? But of course. The bulk of the new OED retains the stamp of the age in which it was born; it remains a triumph of Victorian duty and taxonomic zeal, of a century in which Scott was one of the most popular authors writing in English. Now that the text has become electronic and easier to revise, future OEDs may lose this 19th century bias. Not too soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They are an inexhaustible...
Before the missionary era, the only Christianized black nation was Ethiopia, whose austere art style remained largely unchanged since the Middle Ages. When the first missionaries arrived in other parts of Africa in the 15th century, they sought to stamp out tribal religions and with them idols, ceremonial masks and ancestral images. The artistic tug-of-war intensified during the 19th century as the number of Christian missions mushroomed...
...long been able to claim the moral high ground in the campaign to stamp out chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
Specifically, H/RAAA activists hoped that the Board could vote to force Harvard's seven-member Corporation, which decides University financial policy, to divest completely from South Africa. But even after winning three seats, H/RAAA activists were unsuccessful in securing such a vote by the Overseers, who traditionally rubber-stamp all Corporation decisions...
...from Congressmen's crankiness over fumbling their pay raise. Capitol Hill does not want to take the rap for the irreconcilable differences between what Bush is promising in his budget and what the Treasury will allow him to do. Nor is the Senate Armed Services Committee going to rubber-stamp the nomination of former Senator John Tower as Secretary of Defense...